The mom from California has visited several doctors and had multiple biopsies, but six years later nobody has been able to give her a definitive diagnosis.
What began as a seemingly harmless insect bite during a 2018 vacation in Costa Rica has turned into an ongoing medical mystery for Cynthia Bravo, a 39-year-old mother and realtor from Valencia, California. Despite multiple consultations with doctors over the years, Bravo's skin condition continues to worsen, leaving her and her TikTok followers desperate for answers.
Salar Hazany, a board-certified dermatologist at the Scar Healing Institute of Beverly Hills, told Newsweek: 'I have not seen or diagnosed this patient, but it looks like this woman might have sporotrichosis, which is caused by a prick from a thorn of a plant, likely a rose plant. Other exotic fungi and bacteria can have sporotrichoid spread. They are hard to culture and see in biopsy.
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